Carpet shark or spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. Near threatened. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1805.

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